Joni Mitchell’s First Grammys Performance Brings Crowd to Tears

Joni Mitchell made a uncommon look on the Grammys on Sunday night, performing “Both Sides, Now.”

Accompanied by Brandi Carlile, Lucius, Allison Russell and others, it marked Mitchell’s first time taking part in the lauded business occasion. She is now a 10-time Grammy winner, having gained this 12 months’s award for Best Folk Album with Joni Mitchell at Newport.

“She redefined the very purpose of a song to reflect the contents of a person’s soul,” Carlile stated earlier than the efficiency, describing Mitchell as “the matriarch of imagination.”

Prior to this 12 months’s present, Mitchell’s most up-to-date Grammy win occurred in 2022, when she gained Best Historical Album for the primary installment of her archival sequence, Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).

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Joni Mitchell’s Gradual Return to the Stage

In 2015, Mitchell suffered a mind aneurysm that left her unable to stroll and discuss, abilities she was then pressured to re-learn. With the assistance of fellow musicians like Brandi Carlile, she additionally slowly started taking part in music once more, typically gathering with others in her house for informal classes affectionately dubbed “Joni Jams.”

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In 2022, Mitchell made a shock look on the Newport Folk Festival, the place she carried out a handful of songs with Carlile. Just a couple of 12 months after that, Mitchell carried out at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington, her first headlining, ticketed live performance since 2002. She appeared alongside Carlile and varied different celebrated musicians, together with Annie Lennox, Wendy Melvoin, Allison Russell, Marcus Mumford, Sarah McLachlan and others.

“[I’ve] watched one of the most miraculous things I’ve seen in my life,” Carlile stated at that present, “and now you get to see it.”